PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Westport
Pile Driving
Norwalk Marine Contractors used
timber piles in lieu of traditional
rammed aggregate piers for this
condominium project
By Lisa Kopochinski
Norwalk Marine Contractors (NMC) recently completed
– in less than 14 days – driving timber piles for a
condominium project in Westport, Conn. for owner
David Adam Realty.
“We began designing/estimating the project in August 2020,”
said NMC project manager Kyle Andrew. While he is unsure of
the entire contract amount of this project, NMC’s scope was
approximately $140,000.
“We then broke ground in January and finished within two
weeks. NMC provided a ‘value engineered’ timber inclusion system
to save the project 40% in soil improvement costs. The original
design was to provide a rigid inclusion to the transfer building load
past the organic soils and into the gravelly sand stratum. Our team
achieved this using timber pile inclusion.”
Timber pile inclusion explained
When asked to explain what timber pile inclusion involves, Andrew
doesn’t miss a beat.
“Essentially, a timber inclusion works as a hybrid between
a timber pile and a rigid inclusion. When there are layers of
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